He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging.... He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.
Quotes about severed (16 Quotes)
If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable.
The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.
O what their joy and their glory must be, Those endless sabbaths the blessed ones see crowns for the valiant, for weary ones rest God shall be all, and in all ever blest. Truly Jerusalem name we that shore, vision of peace that brings hope evermore wish and fulfillment shall severed be ne'er, nor the thing prayed for come short of the prayer. There, where no trouble distraction can bring, we the sweet anthems of Zion shall sing, while for thy grace, Lord, their voices of praise thy blessed people eternally raise. Now, in the meantime, with hearts raised on high, we for that country must yearn and must sigh, seeking Jerusalem, dear native land, through the long exile on Babylon's strand. Low before him with our praises we fall, of whom, and in whom, and through whom are all of whom, the Father and in whom, the Son through whom, the Spirit, with both ever one.
Sadomasochism has always been the furthest reach of the sexual experience when sex becomes most purely sexual, that is, severed from personhood, from relationships, from love. It should not be surprising that it has become attached to Nazi symbolism...
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer.
In the case of the stomach, however, the nerves of the glandular cells were always severed when constructing an artificially isolated pouch and this, naturally, affected the normal work of the stomach.
Life of my life, Death's bitter sword
Hath severed us like a broken word,
Rent us in twain who are but one.
Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee,
Severed at last by Time's all-severing wave?
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.
Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.
Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.
What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.